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by rmc 9y ago
Usually people mean the EU, and there is lots of EU level law. They even do it in the UK, which is weird "Here in Britain, we drive on the left, and in Europe they drive on the right"
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by rmc 9y ago
Because you could just forbid employees from using such other form of communication at work.
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by rmc 9y ago
> When you use Facebook platform apps, you have to consent to the disclosure of your information to the developer, and have to agree to allow whatever special permissions the developer is asking for. As for friend data that apps may hav
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by rmc 9y ago
It depends. Courts could rule that click through licences don't constitute "informed consent", because let's be honest, people aren't informed about what they're signing.
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by rmc 9y ago
In May the GDPR comes into force in the EU.
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by rmc 9y ago
Maybe CA & FB are friends here and looking after each other.
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by rmc 9y ago
The GDPR is mostly the same EU data protection law, but one new part is that civic organisations/NGOs/consumer organisations are allowed to sue the companies to enforce privacy law. So the ICO might do nothing. But Max Schrem&#x27
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by rmc 9y ago
Or just don't store personal data?
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by rmc 9y ago
I suspect the "freely upload" requirement might be "free as in speech", not "free as in beer". Apple might make it free as in cost nothing. But are you required to agree to any terms of service? I suspect so.
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by rmc 9y ago
The Free Software Foundation has some details on this[1]. This used to come up with the video player VLC, but they seem to have relicenced it, and it's now possible.[2] I've heard one reason is that the App Store requires users to
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by rmc 9y ago
Existing EU data protection law since the mid 90s gives people the right to get a copy of their personal data, with big players, like Facebook, supporting it for years. I don't know if Slack has any offices or entity in the EU, but you
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by rmc 9y ago
Yes it's opt-in, and consent also has to be as easy to withdraw (at any time) as it is to give.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sounds like a good business model. Look at what US tech companies don't want to abide by EU law. Copy their app, but without all the privacy issues, make it free for all, incl EU. You already know what to copy, you don't need to d
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by rmc 9y ago
When it was set up in the 1940s, it was claimed to be impossibly expensive, and would bankrupt the nation.
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by rmc 9y ago
Additionally, Uber usage encourages car ownership and usage, as opposed to cycling or public transport.
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by rmc 9y ago
Al Capone was convicted on tax crimes, could this be the way to get Uber?
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by rmc 9y ago
If you install ipfs-companion browser extension, it will automatically turn all ipfs.io/ipfs/ links to links to your locally running gateway.
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by rmc 9y ago
Facebook is going to be following the EU's GDPR in a few months, which will probably require opt-in.
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by rmc 9y ago
And consent can be revoked, and must be as easy to revoke as to give.
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by rmc 9y ago
It's HipNewStartupLLC in Delaware that's got more to worry about. VCs will want growth, and at the start things go up. Then they want to expand to the EU, and they've hit the road block.
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by rmc 9y ago
I presume email addresses are PII?
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by rmc 9y ago
Actually one new thing about the GDPR is that consumer rights organisations can sue companies/organisations to enforce privacy rights. Max Schrems (who's case killed Safe Harbour) has set up an org None of your Business ( http
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by rmc 9y ago
In OSM objects have zero or more tags, a set of key/values (with both being strings). That's all. With that, the OSM community has come up with lots of ways to classify and tag things. e.g. the railway nerds have very detailed way
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by rmc 9y ago
The core editing API hasn't changed in years. HTTP/1.1 come out in 1997 and HTTP/2 in 2015. Was web programming in 2014 the same as web programming in 1998?
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by rmc 9y ago
I suspect they're referring to the Japanese addressing schem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
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by rmc 9y ago
The "OSM API" is an editing API, for editing the map. The OSM ecosystem has gained some new, much more powerful APIs, which Doctor_Fegg mentions. OSRM's API, GraphHopper's API, Overpass's API, these are all better t
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by rmc 9y ago
Can Facebook operate if they don't track people to the degree they are doing now? Can they offer good adverts? Can Google?
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by rmc 9y ago
It's the "yet" that'll kill them. With the focus on growth, a VC backed company will not be able to ignore the massive EU market forever. Can it pivot, quickly, to be respecting of privacy? If you've build your whol
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by rmc 9y ago
And the competitor will be able to operate in the USA, whereas FB won't be operating in EU, giving the compeditor an advantage.
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by rmc 9y ago
A new, stronger, EU data protection law (GDPR) is coming into force in May this year.

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